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The UK government is briefing that a remote patch of land in the South Atlantic could become a processing hub for people crossing the Channel in small boats.
Activists protesting ethnic violence in northeastern Manipur state shout slogans in Mumbai, India, on July 24, 2023. Violence between tribal communities in the state has flared up in recent months.
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The Indian central government has done little thus far to quell the ongoing ethnic violence in the state of Manipur.
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in May 2023.
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The Taliban’s two years ruling Afghanistan have taught us ordinary human rights initiatives are insufficient to address gender apartheid. We need resolute collective international action.
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There are different tactics that governments can use to block the internet, some more sophisticated than others.
Forced and child labor has been reported in mines in the Congo, which produces over 70% of the world’s cobalt.
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A new EU law would require thousands of multinational companies, including many based in the US, to look for signs of human rights abuses in their supply chains.
Don Dale detention centre, Darwin.
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Practices used in detention in Australia such as spithoods and solitary confinement could amount to torture, according to international law.
A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo registers his fingerprints on a biometric machine in Uganda in 2022.
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Capturing biometric data helps UN agencies and other groups avoid the risk of fraud and increase efficiency. But the practice is complicated and has created security risks for vulnerable groups.
The death penalty has not been enforced in Ghana for over three decades.
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Ghana is a signatory to several international conventions that oblige it to guarantee the right to life.
Technicians working to destroy the United States’ chemical weapons stockpile at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot on June 8, 2023, in Pueblo, Colo.
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When it comes to chemical weapons, American condemnation, even if hypocritical, is still valuable.
Caster Semenya at the 2017 World Athletics Championships, London.
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The judgment is a watershed moment for the relationship between sport and human rights.
Christiano Ronaldo signed a 2.5-year contract with the Saudi team with Al Nassr, estimated to be worth more than 200 million euros. He made his debut in January.
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Prince Mohammad bin Salman is trying to rebrand the kingdom in the model of Qatar and the UAE – two states with human rights issues that have become part of the global order.
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The NHI bill aims to ensure that all South Africans have access to quality healthcare services.
Donald Trump, left, and Harry Truman: Two former presidents who had different ideas about nationalism and patriotism.
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Nationalism and patriotism are sometimes treated as synonyms, but they have very different meanings.
Soldiers on patrol in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in November 2022.
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A comprehensive strategy does not seem to be an immediate priority for Congolese authorities with an eye on elections.
Henry, a teenaged rebel solider, before he is disarmed in 2001.
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Transitional justice contributed greatly to the peace which Sierra Leone has experienced in the last two decades.
The Sudbury 17 wildfire burns east of Mississagi Provincial Park near Elliot Lake, Ont., on June 4, 2023.
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Canadian courts are increasingly holding governments accountable for violating their citizens’ human rights by not doing enough on climate change.
Members of the feminist group Las Tesis participate in Chile’s national protest movement in Santiago, Chile, in December 2019.
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People across Latin America are demanding greater political participation. Some countries, including Colombia and Chile, have responded by involving citizens in the making of their constitutions.
A 1945 photograph of detainees at the Honouliuli Internment Camp.
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When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, he paved the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans on the mainland and Hawaii
Poverty is prevalent in most gold mining communities in Ghana.
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The activities of artisanal small-scale miners can be turned into an economic good.
Kansas legislators Brenda Landwehr, left, and Chris Croft confer during a vote on an anti-transgender bathroom bill, which both support.
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Transgender people are more than four times as likely to be the victim of a crime as cisgender people.